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A nervous place

With a female Sparrowhawk making repeated visits to the garden feeders this morning the other birds are understandably looking nervous. Completely oblivious to this are small group of Siskins who have just arrived. I have noticed in the past that they don’t get the jitters the same way as the other birds. They seem quite… Read More A nervous place

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Lucky ducks

Mallards on an almost completely frozen village pond got an unexpected treat yesterday evening. Out on a study break/run in the car with my daughter we found the planned location for our trip (a walled garden centre) closed by the time we got there.A back-up plan of a container of the homemade garden bird mix… Read More Lucky ducks

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GBBD… Congrats Carol!

Today Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day celebrates not only the flowering plants in many, many gardens across the Blogisphere but it also its 3rd Blogiversary! I’d like to send warm Congratulations to Carol over at May Dreams Gardens who came up with this idea and has continued to generously host it every month.Just a little something… Read More GBBD… Congrats Carol!

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Time to saddle up…

…we’re off to the North American Prairie at Cambo, Scotland. Whoa! Sorry, could resist the title 🙂 I also couldn’t resist the trip to see this prairie last September as soon as I heard about it.Until then I had only associated Cambo with snowdrops and thoroughly enjoyed not just one but two visits to see… Read More Time to saddle up…

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The cut flower area

Continuing with my Cambo weekend, let’s head next to the cut flower area (see map REF 7). Verbascum nigrum ‘Sixteen Candles’ was seen here back in September 2009 with its slender yellow branching spike. This area was on the slope towards the top of this walled garden area. Wandering along meandering plant lined paths towards… Read More The cut flower area